Exemplifications or copies of records and records of deeds and other instruments or of office books, or parts thereof, and official bonds which are kept in any public office in this state shall be proved or admitted as legal evidence in this state by the attestation of the keeper of said records or books, deeds or other instruments or official bonds that the same are true and complete copies of the records, bonds, instruments or books, or parts thereof, in his custody, and the seal of said keeper thereto annexed, if there is a seal (if there is no official seal, there shall be attached to such attestation the certificate of the clerk), and the seal of the circuit, district or municipal court of the proper county where such keeper resides that such attestation is genuine and made by the proper officer.
(Code 1923, §7709; Code 1940, T. 7, §423.)
Notes of Decisions
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cases, 1985–1993 · leading case:
Jones v. White, 992 F.2d 1548 (11th Cir. 1993).
Jones v. White, 992 F.2d 1548 (11th Cir. 1993).
“Ala.Code § 12-21-67 (1986). .The record and judicial proceedings of the courts of any state or territory or of any [country subject to the jurisdiction of the United States] shall be proved or admitted in any other court within the United States by the attestation of the clerk…”
Nickerson v. State, 539 So. 2d 337 (Ala. Crim. App. 1988).
“The record indicates that defense counsel objected to the use of the California conviction because it was not properly certified pursuant to §§ 12-21-67 and 12-21-70, Code of Alabama (1975), in that it only contained certification by the clerk of the court and no authentication…”
Butts v. State, 471 So. 2d 400 (Ala. 1985).
“Therefore, the certificate of the clerk does not comply with the provisions of Code 1975, § 12-21-67. This being true, denial of Butts’s petition for the writ of habeas corpus was error and the judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeals is due to be, and it is hereby, reversed.”
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